Day 3 of the 11-day Military Challenge In rural Saskatchewan (before it was a Province) in a small town called Indian Head, Benjamin Nelson Harrop was born on a fall day in October, 1894. Growing up on the farm, helping his father William with chores seems a long way off from piloting planes in WWI…
Day 2 of the 11-day Military Challenge Arnott Grier Mordy was born in Almonte, Ontario and was working as an accountant at the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Winnipeg when WWI broke out. In 1914 he enlisted and first served with the Cameron Highlanders, later being transferred to the 16th Canadian Scottish Division. During the duration…
Day 1 of the 11-day Military Challenge Samuel T. Jordan was a career soldier serving with the 8th Royal Rifles and later as an instructor at the Royal Military College in Kingston. I recently found a picture of him on a trip to Kingston hanging on the wall at the RCHA social room. He is in a…
If you have any military ancestors in Canada it is likely that you are aware of the indexing of the WWI Soldier’s service records by Library and Archives Canada. They are over 1/2 done and the last update took us to the surname Russell. Here a few other resources that can be investigated to help…
I am issuing an 11-day challenge to genealogists to honour their military ancestors. Starting on Nov. 1 honor a Military ancestor by sharing their experiences, accomplishments, or losses, tell their stories with family, friends and fellow genealogists How? Write a blog post, share a picture on your Facebook page or Instagram. You can choose to detail one…
Your cousins hold so many clues in their DNA, they may have the link you are looking for. My 1/2 2nd cousin once removed recently added her DNA to Family Tree DNA and I was able to do some comparisons with relatives who I had already tested. You may think a 1/2 relative is not…
I have updated the Surnames in My Tree page on my blog and added my Gedmatch number, do you have your Gedmatch number posted on your genealogy blog? I will be adding to the summaries of my 32 great great grandparents (if there is information to add).
Yesterday I went to the Saskatchewan Vital Records website to see if they had finally added the marriage index, and I was sad to see that nothing had changed. The website still indicates that they will work on the Marriage index when they have completed the Death index. Don’t get me wrong the site…
I already wrote about the visual tool offered by Bonnie at DNA RootSearch in an earlier blog post Connecting Your DNA Matches but I have more to say. When I was looking at my results I realized I was getting clues that aren’t as easy to see on your Ancestry matches pages. These clues were grouping my…
Guess what happened to me this week? Well, it may not be too hard to guess after reading the title… I sponsored a test for a 2nd cousin 1 removed with the testees nephew (who was as excited as I was) organizing everything. Two days ago my email dinged with Ancestry alerting me that the results…
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